Should You Read Shakespeare?: Literature, Popular Culture & MoralityUNSW Press, 1999 - 179 pages The capacity of novels and popular culture to both delight and instruct is the starting point for this examination of a broad range of literature, film and television. Anne Waldron Neumann breaks down the artificial divide between 'high culture' and 'popular culture'. |
Contents
Should you read Romeo and Juliet | 12 |
Princess Diana and | 29 |
Why we should read | 35 |
Flying horses and fiction defended in Charles | 50 |
The Thelma and Louise theory of literature | 64 |
The X Files and the longing for belief | 74 |
The Simpsons and acknowledging human | 84 |
The rationalising of violence the inciting | 96 |
Fionas I have known | 132 |
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